Douluo Continent: The Spirit-Eyed Detective Huo Yuhao

"Like a ghost..." Huo Yuhao turned to look at the sea god's incomplete divine consciousness, blood spilling from the corner of his mouth. "Gods are too hard to fight."

As expected, the purity of the immortal spiritual power at only 76% was insufficient, and a little bit remained to be completely destroyed.

They underestimated the gods of this world.

A surge of energy from the Sea God's divine sense flowed into Huo Yuhao's body through the trident, sealing the movements of the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm and other summoned beasts, who shared the pain with Huo Yuhao.

Chapter 118 Merit?

"Now that things have come to this, what other tricks do you have up your sleeve?" The Sea God, with only a third of his consciousness remaining, couldn't help but laugh. In the end, he still managed to get his way.

"Stop!" Elder Xuan, standing to the side, was furious. He couldn't get involved in the fight just now, but now that it was happening right in front of him, how could he stand it?

The Gluttonous Divine Ox Martial Soul instantly took over his body, and his earth-yellow soul power, which was infinitely close to the limit of the Douluo level, blasted towards the Sea God's divine soul with all its might.

"Protect Yuhao!" Bei Bei shouted immediately, leading the other seven monsters forward. Of course, their goal wasn't to attack the remnant consciousness of the Sea God, but to pull Huo Yuhao off the trident.

"A bunch of ants." The Sea God didn't care at all. With a wave of his hand, he knocked down everyone who rushed up, and then took a blow from Elder Xuan.

Elder Xuan's all-out attack was powerful, but it had no effect; the Sea God's divine sense was almost unaffected.

"Impossible!" Elder Xuan couldn't believe that his attack had been completely ineffective.

"The explosion just now has used up all your divine power, which means you have nothing left to threaten me." The Sea God said as he restored his damaged body to its original state, but it was clearly much dimmer than before.

"Tch." Huo Yuhao didn't say anything more to him. He turned around, grabbed the trident, and used a corpse explosion technique on himself. The horrific scene stunned even the Sea God's consciousness.

As Huo Yuhao self-destructed, the beasts inside his body finally left and scattered.

"Self-destructed? No!" The Sea God's divine sense quickly reacted, and he looked up at the sky, where Huo Yuhao, intact, jumped out again from a spatial portal descending from above.

"Resurrect." Huo Yuhao, carrying three huge spirit rings, threw another punch, but without the support of the magic array, the attack was obviously difficult to cause any damage.

With a flick of his divine sense, Poseidon's trident once again pierced and killed Huo Yuhao.

Another corpse explosion occurred, poisonous mist filled the air, and the lively Huo Yuhao charged back from another direction.

After killing Huo Yuhao five times in a row, the Sea God roared, "This is never going to end! How many are there?"

"Hmph, do you really think you can wear me down like this? What wishful thinking! How many lives do you have left to waste?" The Sea God's divine sense was utterly disdainful, standing firm and unmoving. "I'll just stand here and not move. How can you possibly harm me now that you've lost your immortal power?"

Even though he is currently in a very weak state, the difference between Huo Yuhao and him is still the difference between having immortal spiritual power and not having it, that is, the difference between a god and a mortal.

Huo Yuhao remained silent, his fist continuing its downward motion towards the face of the Sea God's consciousness.

boom!

The sea god was thrown back by the immense force of the punch, his face showing a gash from which a wisp of celestial power dissipated and vanished into the world.

"Haha!" Huo Yuhao raised his fist, a carefree smile on his face.

"Injured? How is that possible?! You still have immortal spiritual power... no... even if you do, how could you possibly use it?" The Sea God was extremely shocked and couldn't understand how Huo Yuhao had done it.

"If you want to become a god, besides the path of immortal spiritual power, there must be other methods, right?" Huo Yuhao clenched his fist and attacked the Sea God again.

Poseidon's divine sense did not dodge, enduring Huo Yuhao's attack. He stared intently at Huo Yuhao's fist, trying to discern the secret within.

After taking three punches, he finally realized that each of Huo Yuhao's punches was enveloped in a layer of soft golden light.

"This is... the power of faith? No, it's not just faith... what is it then?" The Sea God couldn't understand it; Huo Yuhao had undergone changes that even he couldn't discern.

"You don't understand, do you? Because this is something you're too stupid to comprehend," Huo Yuhao laughed. After saying that, he no longer concealed his true feelings, and the golden light on his fist kept flashing.

"This is my... merit! Hahahaha!"

Unlike the white-gold of the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm's million-year soul ring, and unlike the Sea God's magnificent blue-gold, this is a soft, heartwarming yet profound and strong golden light.

"The light of merit?! You arrogant brat?" The sea god couldn't see any faith or merit in this crazy kid.

"Foolish! With your brain, which is tens of thousands of years behind, you certainly can't understand the great achievements my talents can accomplish." Huo Yuhao was gradually enveloped in golden light. If it weren't for the fierce aura on his face, he would look even more sacred than the previous Sea God.

"Isn't it strange? On this Douluo Continent, I have educated the barbarians, created technology, cured diseases and poisons, and redeemed the dead, bringing civilization to this place and making it infinitely more advanced than before. Who in the history of Douluo Continent can match such achievements!"

Huo Yuhao spread his hands: "However, putting aside any talk of faith, I haven't even accumulated half a merit. Is that reasonable?"

"There are clear records in ancient texts of cases where people attained godhood through faith, and you, the sea god, certainly had the power of faith as a part of your strength. If you can have it, why can't I?"

"Then I finally understood." Huo Yuhao pointed to the ground, "It's a problem with this Douluo Star plane."

"Perhaps it's because of my strong mental strength, I've always been quite good at sensing other people's emotions, although I personally don't like to empathize with others." Huo Yuhao kicked the ground hard and continued, "After I obtained my own domain, I was always able to sense a strange emotion, and after converting that bunch of undead in the Star Luo Arena, I sensed it even more deeply."

On the Star Luo Arena, the purification array still emitted a faint light, and merit power was constantly being transferred from it to Huo Yuhao.

What Huo Yuhao didn't say was that after collecting more than 10,000 martial soul data in the arena, the long-lost flame in his mind burned intensely again, allowing him to fully sense this emotion.

"That emotion is the emotion of the so-called Douluo plane's will."

As he spoke, Huo Yuhao wore a look of disgust. "What kind of emotions are those? Fear, terror, trembling, utterly pathetic. Just sensing them makes my scalp tingle."

"Then I realized that the will of this Douluo plane... is a complete coward."

Huo Yuhao angrily cursed, "He is afraid of you, the god who can take things from him at will. He wants to resist but dares not, and he doesn't even dare to give me the faith and merit power that I should have received."

"If I hadn't just used a divine power bomb to half-dead your sea god consciousness, showing him that I have the hope of dealing with you, he would have finally decided to stand on my side completely."

“The will of the plane…” The sea god’s divine sense coldly stared at the ground, and he could vaguely feel the earth tremble.

"Pah, coward." Huo Yuhao spat on the ground, then channeled his merit light and threw another punch.

It wasn't that he didn't want to use other attack methods, but rather that the power of merit was accumulating very slowly, and the current amount was only enough to cover his fist for a punch.

"Hahahaha! Poseidon, let's continue the battle! Battle! Battle!"

The Sea God unleashed another trident strike with his divine sense. This time, Huo Yuhao narrowly dodged it, bypassed the trident, and landed a punch squarely on the Sea God's face.

At this moment, his mind had already connected with the plane will of Douluo Star, and the actions of the Sea God's divine consciousness were clearly reflected in his mind.

He can know everything about the information that exists on Douluo Star.

Chapter 119 The True Form Descends

With a flick of his trident, Huo Yuhao slashed horizontally, but Huo Yuhao neither dodged nor evaded, letting the trident pierce his body, pressing it down with both hands to prevent it from moving even an inch further.

On the other side, the spatial gate opened, and another Huo Yuhao jumped out, like a demon crawling out of hell. The original one exploded with the Corpse Explosion Technique, and this one followed up with a punch full of faith and merit, which hit the Sea God. Each attack dissipated some of the Sea God's divine spiritual power.

"Haha, let's see if my body runs out first, or if I shatter your divine consciousness first." Huo Yuhao struck a pose, looking like he wanted to shatter the Sea God's divine consciousness with each punch.

"A fool's dream!" The Sea God tried to remain calm, but his figure grew dimmer and dimmer, as if he was about to disappear.

"Tang San, you're a spirit from another world. You're not from Douluo Continent at all, are you?" Huo Yuhao suddenly said.

"You! How could you?!" Not only the Sea God's divine sense, but also the Sea God's physical body in the God Realm behind him was stunned. How could Huo Yuhao possibly know about this?

What he didn't expect was that Huo Yuhao had already deduced his origin from the Xuan Tian Gong, a technique that clearly came from a different world.

After Huo Yuhao successfully connected with the will of the Douluo Star plane, he could read all the data stored on Douluo Star. All of Tang San's information on Douluo Star was instantly accessed by Huo Yuhao, further proving this point.

"I know everything now, I'm omnipotent, although it's limited to the existing information in Douluo Continent. But I know all about you, like how you used to sneak around after Xiao Wu fell asleep, and how you're a perverted lizard lover, and so on..." Huo Yuhao went on and on, constantly revealing the Sea God's secrets.

"Nonsense!!!" The Sea God's divine sense remained extremely angry.

"Now!"

Taking advantage of the Sea God's loss of mind due to anger, Huo Yuhao shouted loudly, and Tianmeng, who had been hiding behind him, spread out and carried a strange object to the Sea God's head.

That thing was none other than the No. 5 childcare robot that Huo Yuhao used to process immortal spiritual power.

At this moment, half of his body was lifted up, tightly trapping the sea god's consciousness.

"What is that? Damn it, how is it draining my power!" These were the last words of the Sea God's consciousness. Then, a chewing and sucking sound came from inside Robot No. 5. The Sea God's consciousness was completely absorbed as energy amidst the screams.

After the absorption was complete, a burp emanated from inside the robot, along with the faint sound of a baby crying.

"It's...it's over..." Tianmeng Ice Silkworm put down Number 5 and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Ah... I've finally reduced his power to a level that I can absorb." Huo Yuhao approached Number 5 and patted the container in his abdomen.

Inside was a tiny baby, the very baby that had just absorbed the weakened divine consciousness of the Sea God.

“Absorbing the power of one’s own original body is indeed the most suitable thing, isn’t it, little sea god?” Huo Yuhao said with a smile as he looked at the baby.

This is the new life that Huo Yuhao gradually cultivated using the remaining divine consciousness of the Sea God out of his own perverse sense of humor—a clone with the power of the Sea God.

"It's a pity it's still too small and incomplete. If we could capture more of the Sea God's divine consciousness to feed it, it should grow faster." Huo Yuhao pondered the other statues left by the Sea God on Douluo Continent. If the Star Luo Empire had them, there couldn't be no other place without them.

If we can find these statues and capture the divine consciousness left behind by the sea god as a backup plan, we can not only obtain more immortal power, but also feed the little sea god.

"Oh right, I still need to give you a name. What should I call you? Tang San... Cang? Or Tang Si? How about we combine them and call you Tang Si Cang?" Huo Yuhao muttered to himself, still so bad at coming up with names.

The baby, soaking in the nutrient solution, made a sound of resistance.

"What have they done to my body...?" Number 5 cried out, looking at the mess inside her. "Even though I was born as a childcare robot, it's so weird to have a baby inside me..."

"Alright, here's something good for you, don't complain." Huo Yuhao tossed the parts of the Sword of Judgment that he had previously disassembled to Number 5.

Number 5 eats the parts like potato chips, transforming them into part of itself.

"That's all over now." Huo Yuhao recalled his beast and prepared to teleport Elder Yi of the Golden Tree back.

Buzz

A burst of loud noise flooded his brain, making Huo Yuhao's head throb. At the same time, a powerful pressure descended from the sky, trying to crush him.

A figure clad in opulent blue and gold descended, and unlike any other time, the arrival of the sea god caused the surrounding world to spin.

"It seems that simply using divine sense is no longer enough to subdue you," the Sea God's voice came again.

The true form has arrived!

"Huff...huff..." Huo Yuhao gasped for breath, under this pressure, he had exhausted all his strength even just standing up.

"This...this...could it be that his true form has descended?" The Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm inside Huo Yuhao's body trembled as it spoke.

"How can you be so shameless? Didn't you say you couldn't come in person?" Hyotei cursed.

"With the true god gone, we probably won't have a chance this time." Huo Qiu'er clenched her fists. She had just felt that even her connection with Di Tian had been severed. But in this situation, it wouldn't make any difference if Di Tian came.

"I will try to buy some time, and see if you can teleport away." Electrox was resolute in the face of death, ready to confront the sea god.

"The chances are zero. A true god-level being... the difference in strength is too great." Xue Di didn't think there was any chance of escape. "And even if we did escape, as long as we're in Douluo Continent, wouldn't we still be in his grasp?"

"A way...a way...what other way is there...think of something!!!" Huo Yuhao racked his brains, searching the database of the Douluo Continent for a way to break the deadlock.

"I will erase your memories and recreate a personality that is easier to control," the Sea God said slowly. Now that his true form has descended, there is no need to rush anything. "And what about the will of the plane? That also needs to be controlled."